Re: Country names

Roger Mills wrote:

>(I don't know whether the unicode will re-transmit, but I could see the
>a-breve and e-macron; there was a blank box following the æ in the IPA).
>
It was the IPA length triangular colon. Most fonts won't have it, so
you'll have to get a font like Thyromanes or Arial Unicode to see it,
and you'll need to configure your mail client to show IPA and Spacing
Modifier Letters with that font. I'm afraid I can't say how to do it,
but if you're lucky it'll be automatic.

>Now I'm curious-- how do you get Unicode characters into email????
>
>
The normal way would be to copy and paste from a Unicode character map
(the one with Windows XP---that's what you have now, isn't it?---will do
the job). You just have to find them. Most are in the IPA extensions or
Spacing Modifier Letters section, but some (like beta and theta) are
only in the Greek section, whereas others are in other Latin extensions
sections (like the ae and oe ligatures). Make sure you send your email
as Unicode or UTF-8. You can also get keyboard layouts with Unicode
characters (incl. IPA chars), but these typically cost money.

Unfortunately, many email servers will hack away with 8-bit characters,
and UTF-8 characters are 8-bits (plain, accent-less ASCII, the
(original) standard for email, is only 7-bits). Additionally, many
people don't have Unicode support in their OS or mail clients. It is
thus much safer to use X-SAMPA.

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Tristan                  <kesuari@...>

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